Pre-opening

The pre-opening was directed by DJ Jan who decided to stay behind the DJ-booth all night to ensure that his disciples (the disciples are us; the Stepfordized mini-jans) were out there taking good care of the guests. Our job: first to ask people if we could offer them a drink/fill up their cup and then directly move on to ask who they were and then explain the project to them - spreading the word of the project. The visitors were many actually. A great deal of many interconnections happened and more people were added into the project. One lady, So Yeon Park who grew up in the house next to the project space showed up to the opening and it turned out that she has been living in the US for the past 8 years and moved back here on the 21st of June (the very same date we also arrived). She knows the area very well and has seen us working day and night in the space with an increasing curiosity about what the f... is going on in here and been wanting to ask but for some reason she didn't yet. She is an artist and been working as a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Kansas and now she's going to live in Seoul. She was immediately invited to our project. Today I found her in the space having lunch when I got here, so I hope that means that she'll spend more time here and with us.

Well, there were more stories like this, new people introduced, curators, students, people from the neighbourhood, artists from different residency programs around and more. Some dancing, some drinking, some serious working and some very serious networking was done. Then a drink pit-stop and later Karaoke at Prince Edwards with Ballantine's as a partner.